12-letter words containing s, e, l, f, n
- fecklessness — The state of being feckless.
- feel oneself — to perceive or examine by touch.
- felliniesque — referring to or reminiscent of the films of Federico Fellini
- ferrosilicon — a ferroalloy containing up to 95 percent silicon.
- fictionalise — Non-Oxford British standard spelling of fictionalize.
- file-sharing — File-sharing is a method of distributing computer files, for example files containing music, among a large number of users.
- final clause — a clause expressing intention or purpose
- find oneself — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- finger lakes — group of long, narrow glacial lakes in WC N.Y.
- fiscal agent — a person or organization serving as another's financial agent.
- fisheye lens — a hemispherical plano-convex lens for photographing in a full 180° in all directions in front of the camera, creating a circular image having an increasing amount of distortion from the center to the periphery.
- fishing line — cord used to catch fish
- fishing pole — a long, slender rod of wood or other material with a line and hook fastened to one end for use in catching fish.
- flawlessness — having no defects or faults, especially none that diminish the value of something: a flawless Ming Dynasty vase.
- fleet prison — (formerly) a London prison, esp used for holding debtors
- fleetingness — passing swiftly; vanishing quickly; transient; transitory: fleeting beauty; a fleeting glance.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flesh-eating — habitually eating flesh; carnivorous
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flexuousness — The state or condition of being flexuous.
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flindermouse — (obsolete) A bat (the mammal).
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- fluoresceine — Alternative spelling of fluorescein.
- fluorescence — the emission of radiation, especially of visible light, by a substance during exposure to external radiation, as light or x-rays. Compare phosphorescence (def 1).
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly the nest — When children fly the nest, they leave their parents' home to live on their own.
- flyfisherman — Flyfisher.
- flyfishermen — Plural form of flyfisherman.
- flying mouse — pygmy glider.
- flying shear — (in a continuous rolling mill) a shear that moves with the piece being cut.
- folding seat — a seat that can be folded down
- foodlessness — Absence of food.
- footlessness — the state of being footless
- forcefulness — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- foreseeingly — by way of foreseeing
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- formlessness — The quality of being formless.
- fourfoldness — the quality of consisting of four parts
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frank stella — Frank (Phillip) born 1936, U.S. painter.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- french-style — French-cut.
- fresnel lens — Optics. a large lens with a surface of concentric grooves of prismatic profile, used in automobile headlights, searchlights, spotlights, etc.
- frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.